This book contains an inventory consisting of 40 colonial monuments related to the Belgian colonial past, from King Leopold II's Free State to the independence of Congo in 1960, which to date and without exception can all be found in the Belgian public space. Today we experience monuments and the symbolism of memory and veneration in a different way than when they were conceived. The colonial era still has an impact on today's society, which is why the memorials are now rightly under discussion.
Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811509Order here

Erik van der Weijde presents a series of photographs of Bollenveld, a futuristic
housing project by Dutch architect Dries Kreijkamp, situated in a residential area of
's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. The 50 'bolwoningen' ("ball-" or "bulb-houses")
were built in 1984 using prefabricated spheres of glass-fibre reinforced concrete.
Each has a diameter of 5.5 metres and total living area of 55 square metres. They
are the last examples of houses that were funded by the Dutch subsidy for
experimental building, which was created in 1968.
Design: Roger Willems and Erik van der Weijde. ISBN 9789492811493Order here

Mahfuz Sultan in this book: "In 2017, while preparing for an exhibition titled Machine, he tried to make sense of all the through lines in his work. He struggled with the endless multiplication of images and the widespread appropriation of his style by amateurs and advertisers. He revisited all of the work from his career; he searched for patterns and affinities in the images, signs of movement and concert between them. Instead of showing less work and countering noise with silence, he showed hundreds of images, decontextualized, some xeroxed very quickly and others printed with care. He resigned himself to the idea that meaning and coherence between all the work would continuously elude him, and the only thing to do was keep going, keep shooting. This book, Entropy, is one of the books made in the aftermath of that moment, when the artist left his forty-year chronology behind and appears to do everything that he did in sequence all at once." Design: Roger Willems and Ari Marcopoulos. ISBN 9789492811486Order here

Cardinal Points, the 10th volume in the series Notes on Representation, charts Kopelman's investigations through drawing, writing, and taking photographs on several trips in Argentina where she joined the research campaigns of different groups of scientists: to Pampa de Achala, Cordoba, working with biologists on invasive terrestrial species and studies of litter; to El Litoral, to the provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes, with a team of ecologists studying floral ecology; to a lab in Puerto Madryn in the Patagonian region, with a team that works with invasions of marine organisms; and to the Ischigualasto Provincial Park and Jachal in the province of San Juan, with a team of geologists and palaeontologists. Design: Ayumi Higuchi and Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811462Order Here

This book revolves around Matter and Mind, a sculpture by artist Noriyuki Haraguchi, permanently installed at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art since the museum's inauguration in 1977. Matter and Mind is a 640 × 480 × 30 cm steel basin filled with used engine oil. Over time a ritual came to be when visitors started throwing coins and other things into the oil pool, turning the sculpture into an unwilling wishing well. Forty years on, Shirin Sabahi invited Haraguchi back to the museum to restore his oil pool. The sunken objects were retrieved from the pool and two films were made in the process. The book hosts a previously unpublished booklet by the first chief curator of the museum. This inclusion follows the enveloping logic of the project, where Sabahi's films, Haraguchi's sculpture and the objects it holds sequentially encase one another. With contributions by: Negar Azimi, Media Farzin, Farnoosh Fathi, David Galloway, Adam Kleinman, Edit Molnár, Shirin Sabahi, Sissel Tolaas. Design: Louis Lüthi. ISBN 9789492811455Order Here

Catalog accompanying the second part of a diptych exhibition in S.M.A.K., Ghent, curated by Martin Germann and Tanja Boon. The first chapter, Other Pictures, questioned the special potential of the still image. In Signal or Noise the gaze is turned inwards and explores the camera as a metaphor for human existence.
Photography is to a large extent produced by machines. The reading of an image thus also requires knowledge of the technological development of the discipline, especially because photography has gradually anchored itself in the social sphere. The more images and their environment merge, the more signal and noise become interchangeable. Readable, manipulated and hidden information are increasingly difficult to distinguish from one another, yet are of equal importance in our visual culture. The myth of photographic transparency seems to be irreversibly lost in a mass of pixels, bits and algorithms.
Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811424Order Here

Published on the occasion of Suter's exhibition at Printed Matter in New York (February 21 - April 21 2019), Cloud Service is a monographic index of clouds and cloud-suggestive forms, both vast and microscopic in scale. Sweeping aerial shots, volcanic plumes and
skyscapes are interwoven with coral, cauliflowers, and bighorn sheep. Placed in sequence, these images resonate in new and complex ways, manipulate each other, and - with a sort of synaptic
leap - take on new depths of meaning. Printed on newspaper stock, saddle stitched in a cover. Design: Batia Suter and Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811431
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Reference Guide is a collection of entries, connected and fuelled by cross-references. These not only determine the characteristics of the collection and its use, but they are also the mechanism behind its expansion. Although the main focus of Reference Guide lies within moments of technological candour, the collection demonstrates a surprisingly high interest in characters and phenomena along the side-lines of these episodes and displays a severe tendency to digress. Reference Guide allows each reader to construct his or her own path through the different entries. This movement is similar to one you might make within an encyclopedia; a movement that might take you from the entry on the aorta, to the heart, to surgeon, to scalpel, to knife, to axe, to forestry only to end up at silver birch or - with a different turn somewhere along the way - at windmill, oil painting, carbon monoxide, the moon or keel. The collection incorporates modified carousel projectors, two pacemakers taking each other for a heart, transcripts, framed pictures, manuals, short films, a giant billboard, recordings, altered batteries, a collection of low pressure sodium lamps, a carpet, a pronouncing dictionary, postcards, eighty pigeon rings on a rope, seven scale-models of a Himalayan mountain, etc. This book is the reference guide to this collection: for each entry, it gathers both the DIN A4-page(s) and - in the margins - the provisional set of cross-references. The publication Reference Guide is part of the eponymous research project and was financed by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund. Design: We Became Aware, Michiel De Cleene, Zsa Zsa Tuffy. ISBN 9789492811400Order Here

In A Die with Twenty-Six Faces, the author - let's call him L. - guides the reader through his collection of alphabet books, that is, books with letters for titles. Some of these titles are well known: Andy Warhol's a, Louis Zukofsky's "A", Georges Perec's W. Others are obscure, perhaps even imaginary: Zach Sodenstern's A, Arnold Skemer's C and D. Tracing connections between these books, L. elaborates on what the critic Guy Davenport has called the "Kells effect": "the symbolic content of illuminated lettering serving a larger purpose than its decoration of geometry, imps, and signs." Mixing essay and fiction, A Die with Twenty-Six Faces is a playful meditation on contemporary literature, typography, and book collecting. Designed by the author. ISBN 9789492811394Order Here

Jeff Weber: "The Kunsthalle Leipzig was a long-term project in the form of an art space (until 2017). I started in
2013 by renovating a former apartment of an abandoned 19th century building in Leipzig and
transformed it into a gallery space. The gallery functioned as a conceptual framework to invite
artist collaborators to produce and show (new) work, as well as to expand my own artistic practice
and open it up to the curatorial. Here, I was able to work intimately with the artists, in part by
photographing their process with particular consideration of the conceptual context of their
project. As a project, the Kunsthalle emerged from, and relies on the principles of a group of
former works of mine: Anticipative Images (2009-2012), but most and foreall on the structural
archive: Attempt At A Personal Epistemology." With contributions by Robert Beavers, Marie-France Rafael, Michael Baers, and Indre Klimaire. Design: Philip Baber with Elisabeth Rafstedt. ISBN 9789492811387Order Here

This fourteen-track vinyl LP in gatefold sleeve features poems of American poets Susan Howe (b. 1937) and Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) as produced by visual artist Shannon Ebner. Juxtaposing historic and recent material from 1991 until 2018, the work brought together here examines the two writer's lifelong preoccupation with subjects adrift in narratives of dispossession both real and imagined. Liner notes contain excerpts of original interviews as well as reproductions of the poets' published materials. According to Ebner, "STRAY: A GRAPHIC TONE is the full-length version of what I started in 2016 when I began seeking exchanges with these two poets. I was drawn to their works for their experiments with poetic form - for their politics of poetic form, to be exact - for their poems' stray figures and stray errant marks."
It was recorded at various locales between 1991 and 2018. The album was edited and produced by Shannon Ebner and mastered and engineered by Joseph Stewart. Design: Julia Born and Shannon Ebner.

Susan Howe: "Sound is everything in poetry. It's measure; the measure is everything. Even though I have gone on about silence. This is the mystery. I don't have a set measure, but I feel that something about the way I place words on paper amounts to a kind of dictation I'm receiving from somewhere. Every mark on paper is an acoustic mark. Sound is also, obviously, sight. It's that instant flash of recognition that echoes and re-echoes. A work of art if it works teaches us we haven't seen what we suddenly see."

Nathaniel Mackey: "Graphite is soft carbon. Were it hard enough to withstand contact and remain totally self-contained, it would not be useful for writing. Graphite gives up some of itself upon contact with paper. Graphite suffers a loss that leaves a mark. So, the music I'm talking about, the writing I'm talking about, is talking about loss that leaves a mark. And not just talking about it; it is the mark that's left."

A series of seven free e-books (in English and Dutch) with texts and images by Bart Lodewijks about his three months working period in Calcutta, India, hosted by Calcutta Art Research Foundation and the Dutch Mondriaan Fund, from early September through mid-December 2018.Download page

"I Am a beauty specialist. I have commissioned myself to research happiness and friendliness in my artwork, and with that I take a stand against irony and cynicism."
The Dutch artist Lily van der Stokker ('s-Hertogenbosch, 1954) lives and works in Amsterdam and New York. In the 1980s she ran an art gallery in the East Village. She achieved her international breakthrough in the following decade, with her exuberant decorative murals. Van der Stokker's work deals with subjects such as beauty, friendship, and kindness, and everyday activities such as cleaning, tidying, and a visit to the doctor. Her conceptual approach adds a completely new dimension to these ostensibly prosaic themes. This book presents the themes that have characterized Van der Stokker's work since the early 1990s. The artist's close involvement in the compilation is reflected in the playful, highly suggestive visual references. With essays by the curators Leontine Coelewij (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and Raphael Gygax (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich). Design: Roger Willems.Order Here
English/Dutch edition: ISBN 9789492811349
English/German edition: ISBN 9789492811356

This 9th volume in Kopelman's series Notes on Representation, is dedicated to Dr. Marcel Wernand, a physical oceanographer who engaged in the research of Forel-Ule scale - a hand-held index to estimate the colour of natural waters since the nineteenth century. This book functions as the Forel-Ule scale itself, reproduced as printed matter in solid, opaque colours. It also brings together fragments, both of Wernand's writings and of recorded conversations, which took place at different moments in 2017. Design: Roger Willems, Ayumi Higuchi. ISBN 9789492811332Order Here

Tupac Biggie presents a visual history of Dana Lixenberg's iconic photographs of the legendary artists Tupac and Biggie, considered by many the best rappers of their time. These photographs, commissioned by VIBE magazine in 1993 and 1996, have been appropriated over the years by innumerable admirers around the world. The book shows for the first time both shoots in their entirety and retraces the unforeseen trajectory and ubiquity of these images. The publication is accompanied by an essay written by Robert Kenner and a poem by Kevin Powell, both renowned contributors of VIBE magazine. Design: Mevis & van Deursen. ISBN 9789492811325Order Here

The Serving Library Annual comprises a number of individual "bulletins" organized around a theme for an international audience of designers, artists, writers, and researchers. This year's collection explores how translation is fast becoming a significant site for the negotiation of identities and power dynamics in an increasingly Anglocentric cultural scene. Although departing from literature and the visual arts, the issue soon veers off into mathematics, music, architecture, religion, and more. The Serving Library Annual 2018/19 is guest co-edited by Italian novelist and translator Vincenzo Latronico and it features contributions by Meehan Crist, Katrina Dodson, Lucile Dupraz, Claudia Durastanti, Joseph Grigely, Meg Miller, Minae Mizumura, National Security Agency, Philip Ording, David Osbaldeston, David Reinfurt, Anna Della Subin, The Annotated Fall, and Emily Wilson. Design: Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey. ISBN 9789492811318Order Here

The cryptic title forms a sequence of symbols and Danish sounds. AÆUÅÆØ roughly translates to 'I am out on an island'. The photographer therefore invites us to visit an island. What the precise nature of that island could be remains undetermined. In any case, it is not an existing island. The images in this book cannot be read as a documentary inventory of a real existing area, but rather as a poetic evocation of the idea 'island'. They explore the isolation, the sense of seclusion, specific to the existence of the islander. Each photograph is an isolated fragment, the whole a sequence of unfathomable appearances. The sublime landscapes, nature observations, archaic symbols and unknown rituals suggest an animistic world view in which every image, every human trace, seems like an echo of other times. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811301Order Here

This publication is an unedited reprint of the catalogue originally published by De Appel in 1980 as a follow-up to the international art manifestation Works and Words. The event sought to break with the one-way traffic of Western artists traveling to the East by inviting artists from Eastern Bloc countries to Amsterdam. The invited artists, theoreticians, film-makers, and art historians represented a broad spectrum of practices, theoretical approaches, and developments. The manifestation resulted in an active exchange of ideas, new insights, and collaborations. Design: Piotr Olszanski. ISBN 9789492811295Order Here

Michel Foucault was invited to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975. During his visit, Simeon Wade, who assisted and accompanied Foucault, persuaded him to join him and his partner, Michael Stoneman, on a trip to Death Valley and Zabriskie Point, where Foucault took LSD for the first time. Wade wrote about this experience in his unpublished manuscript Foucault in California. When Olaf Nicolai asked to use excerpts from the text for an artist's publication, he was permitted a maximum of 250 words. He selected 205 words from throughout the manuscript. Although the broader contents can only be guessed at, this abbreviated text is itself a trip.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition by Olaf Nicolai That's a God-forsaken place; but it's beautiful, isn't it?, at Lokremise / Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti. Design: Dongyoung Lee, Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811271Order Here

Looking at the play between memory and forgetfulness, Mike Kelley: Fortress of Solitude brings together a range of key works from across the artist's career. Whether using found stuffed animals as emotional effigies of long lost traumatic memories, or evoking the psychic existential homelessness of Superman in the form of his Kandor series, Mike Kelley explores the dark underbelly of post-war American culture. This publication accompanies the exhibition that took place at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, curated by Douglas Fogle. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811196Order Here

Within his artistic practice, Diego Tonus focuses on reproduction as a tool of investigation to question control systems and power structures by transforming images, objects, and collective experiences, revealing their underlying structures of codification and normativity. This book deals with issues arising from the silence of the original gavels used by the heads of commissions of emancipatory and revolutionary groups. He investigated their controversial nature as objects belonging to socio-democratic groups, which in turn led to a detailed remaking of these peculiar objects through drawing, carving, and varnishing, to exhibit them for the first time outside the archive. Design: Dongyoung Lee, Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811271Order Here

The Ooze is the twelfth publication in Kunstverein München's 'Companion' series, and corresponds to The Donut of Confusion - a mid-career retrospective by Brud (and also Season Zero of their TV show 'Gewgaw'). Brud is often described as a set of heuristics that gained sentience in the twenty-teens and will self-destruct sometime in the twenty-thirties. Brud focuses their attention somewhere between the stage, the screen, and the eye, to examine the cultural, political, and technological histories of sight (primarily through linguistic and musicological modes) and to expose the hidden structural and ideological precursors to contemporary communication. This 144-page publication contains a compendium of idiosyncratic texts by Aditya Mandayam, reproduced in facsimile from various English-language zines and chapbooks. It also includes new texts about Brud (in English, German, and Polish) by Chris Fitzpatrick, Kees van Gelder, Andrea Liu, and Michal Novotny.
Edited by Aditya Mandayam, with Chris Fitzpatrick, Julie Peeters, and Post Brothers. Design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789492811288Order Here

This book gathers together work from two photographic series, Our Present Invention (2012-14) and All My Gone Life (2014-17), as well as two text collages all made in and focused specifically on the United States. Through a mixture of writing, portraiture, landscape and appropriated archival images, the book describes quotidian encounters with fraught desire, uneven freedom, irrational fear and deep structural division, asking whether the historical and contemporary realities of anti-Black and gendered violence - when treated as aberrations - do not in fact serve to veil violence's essential function in the maintenance of 'civil' society. One Wall a Web traces a chronological path through the production of two series, the first of which (Our Present Invention) sets out with a particular interest in the entanglement of masculinity with violence. The second series of photographs (All My Gone Life) comprises two chapters, the first of which consists of appropriated archival images which track continuities between past and present circumstances. These revenant images enter into dialogue with the final strand of contemporary photographs in the second chapter, which address themselves to the spectral form and the visceral costs of this history in the book's penultimate section. One Wall a Web concludes with an extensive essay that explores resonances between the field of black studies, questions of black life, and the strange ontology of the photographic image. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811226Order Here

An edition of forty boxed and signed copies of the book, containing three archival pigment prints*, one from each of the three sections of the book, and a postcard of the book's back cover image (Ground, 2018). Each box is individually numbered. Order Here

In April 1815 the volcano Mount Tambora, situated on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, erupted into flames, ash and lava, its effects rippling around the globe. In the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, a neighboring glacier expanded through the summer of 1816 causing the Lac de Mauvoisin to overflow its banks. Julian Charrière's new works, An Invitation to Disappear, move, as Dehlia Hannah writes, along "the historical and geographical path between Tambora and the Alps, between 1818 and 2018," tracing the entangled threads of climate devastation, monocultural farming, and an imaginary in which apocalyptic ecological threats find poetic utterance in the aesthetic of the sublime. A series of installations of the works were installed at Kunsthalle Mainz, on the dam of Mauvoisin and at Musée de Bagnes, comprising dystopic installations and an absurdist film centered around the palm oil plantations that now carpet the flanks of Mount Tambora. With texts in English by Stefanie Böttcher and Dehlia Hannah, including 2 postcards and an insert with a French translation of Hannah's text. Published to coincide with exhibitions at the Mauvoisin Dam, the Museum of Bagnes in Le Châble, and Kunsthalle Mainz. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811264Order Here

This edition presents the "Room of Peace", first shown as an exhibition-installation at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. It is the first in a series of books and publications by the author, each dedicated to one photographic project or installation. The hardcover leporello and the accompanying insert are designed by Joris Kritis, and printed by Tienkamp in Groningen in an edition of 500 copies. With an introduction text by Bas Princen, and an essay by Marc Angélil and Cary Siress. ISBN 9789492811257Order Here

Statement
I was allowed to photograph Sala della Pace, the Room of Peace, in early morning before visitors would arrive. On the first day, I turned off the spotlights that are used to highlight Ambrogio Lorenzetti's famous fresco panorama and opened the curtains covering the only window in the room. In the daylight, the panorama does not appear like a singular work of art - rather, it is part of a painted architectural order that fully covers the walls and ceiling. The lower part of the space is painted to create the impression of an ornamental wall relief in various materials. Looking up, above eye level, a painted frieze frames the space and seamlessly turns into the fresco panorama depicting the City-State Under Tyranny, Virtues of Good Government, and Good City-Republic. The space has been fully painted to create the impression of a complex and grand room inside a simple, rectangular, plastered volume in the side wing of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. This room, from which the city used to be governed by the elected Council of Nine, was not articulated through rare or expensive materials but through a single image depicting a room of power - or an illusion of it. Though, to us, these frescos may look like documents of the long-forgotten past, to their contemporaries they were meant to project future visions: one that they feared, the other, that to which they aspired. The painted image of the room as a work of art had the power to instill the governing Council with the sense that every possible future was still in their hands. The Room of Peace reminds us that an image is, of course, nearly always a projection - an image nearly always speaks about visions more than it speaks about facts. But for me the crucial message of the Room of Peace is that an image has more power when it is contextualized, in an architectural or urban space and in a specific social situation. In contrast, contemporary images are rarely contextual, viewed on mobile devices and endlessly circulating. They are unspecific and therefore neutralized. In contemporary public and political spaces, could a contextual image - an image in a space, like in the Room of Peace - still be a vital agent?
Bas Princen, 2018

Artist publication by Zarouhie Abdalian in collaboration with Julie Peeters detailing Abdalian's solo exhibition at LAXART in 2017, curated by Micki Meng. The catalog centers around seven tools and tool heads (titled: brunt) and several casts of the worked surface of a long derelict chalk mine (titled: from chalk mine hollow). Tara McDowell in the accompanying text describes the work as "near-future monuments to our own self-made epoch, the Anthropocene." With texts by Joseph Rosenzweig and Tara McDowell. Design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789492811240Order Here

Set of 3 zines of 16 pages with stories and images by Bart Lodewijks about the realization of his long term commission to create chalk wall drawings at the new head quarters of The Netherlands food and consumer product safety authority (NVWA). Inside the building Lodewijks is confronted by the regulations of the inspectors, and on the streets around the building it's the local housing association that frustrtates his work. Nevertheless Lodewijks managed to create a series of drawings in working rooms, public spaces, and private houses in which he connects different social layers in and around the instistution. Design: Roger Willems. Note: All text only in Dutch. Order Here

Radial Grammar was created by Batia Suter in 2018 on the occasion of her eponymous exhibition at Le Bal in Paris, from May 25 till August 26, 2018. The imagery in this book, which revolves around radial shapes and concepts, also forms the basis of a video work in the exhibition. Specific for the book is the use of two separate layers of black ink, allowing Suter to create double images and to merge patterns and screens. Departing from pages scanned from her collection of second hand tomes - mainly concerning natural science, precision machinery and art history - Suter freely manipulates them and reorders them within the space of a book, which can be seen as a condensed exhibition on paper. The result is a journey along visual phenomena that reconnects us with the endless curiosity and patience of our younger selves leafing through an encyclopedia, unattended and unable to read, yet all the more sensitive to its inner visual rhymes and correspondences. With a text by Henri Michaux from 1968. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811233Order Here

Glaz is a Breton word used to describe a colour between green and blue, the colour of water. Since childhood, Nicolas Floc'h has developed a passion for the ocean and devoted his life and work to encapsulating and conveying the infinite riches and aspects of its reality. This voluminous monograph, published after his exhibition at Fonds régional d'art contemporain Bretagne, covers an oeuvre of sculpture, photography, and conceptual works, organised in themes like 'Invisible Architecture', 'Productive Structures', 'Natural Habitats', 'Painting', 'Functional', and 'Recycling'. A major part of the book is dedicated to underwater photographs of artificial reefs in France, Portugal, and Japan, as well as specific seascapes taken by Floc'h during a scientific expedition on the Tara Pacific in Japan.
With texts in French and English by Catherine Elkar, Jean-Marc Huitorel, Yves Henocque, Nicolas Floc'h, and Hubert Loisel. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811165Order Here

Lua Cão is the eleventh publication in Kunstverein München's Companion series, and corresponds to an exhibition by Alexandre Estrela and João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva. Initiated by Natxo Checa at ZdB in Lisbon, then optimized for Munich with Kunstverein München, the exhibition is an immersive moving-image experiment, with a projectionist arranging 20 analog films and digital videos by Estrela and Gusmão & Paiva in five 15-minute constellations, according to a 4-hour technical script. This publication departs from the exhibition to recount the endless encounters of Tom, an avid image consumer, and Jerry, a zealous projectionist, through more than 150 texts (in English and German) by Alexandre Estrela, Chris Fitzpatrick, João Maria Gusmão, Pedro Paiva, and Post Brothers. Designed by Julie Peeters, the A4 publication is punctuated by a series of 10 full color collages that Estrela and Gusmão & Paiva produced collaboratively by superimposing film stills and video stills from the exhibition. Design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789492811219Order Here

In his works on canvas created over the past twelve years, René Daniëls often returns to his paintings from the period before 1987. He adopts ciphers deriving from these works but uses them to develop a different, unprecedented language. Changing pictorial constellations express an existential situation of non-communication and isolation but are also pushed beyond these limits into a realm of extraordinary painterly possibilities. The present publication accompanies an exhibition of René Daniëls's work from 2006 to 2017 at Reset in Borgloon, Belgium, curated by Ulrich Loock, who is also the editor of this book. It marks the first time that the paintings Daniëls has produced since his devastating stroke in 1987 have been presented as a substantial and autonomous body of work. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811202Order Here

Five Portraits of the Insane by the nineteenth century French artist Théodore Géricault are said to be all that remain of originally ten commissioned portraits of insane patients. Each painting depicts a particular mental condition, a so-called monomania including a kleptomaniac, a woman mad with envy, a child kidnapper. Almost nothing is known about these portraits, but they raise a multitude of questions. Who are these people? In what way are they insane? What and where are the five missing madnesses? Intrigued and inspired by an absence, Tan decides to go in search of them. Pairing personal impressions with formal analysis and archival research, the essay ventures far beyond the boundaries of art history.
Written by Fiona Tan during a fellowship as artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811158Order Here

Second in a publication series documenting the Middelheimmuseum Library in Antwerp. For every issue another artsist is invited to make a selection acoording to his/her specific interest. The books Sophie Nys selected brought her to the work of Jacob Epstein and the recent reappearance of Winston Churchill in the White House. Editing and design: Sophie Nys and Julie Peeters.
Available for free at the Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp; Kask School of Arts, Ghent; After 8 Books, Paris; San Serriffe, Amsterdam; and at Offprint London 2018.ISBN 9789492811189 (Not for sale)

Between 1904 and 1911, botanist Jean Massart (1865-1925) made a series of landscape photos mainly situated in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. They had a didactic purpose: Massart wanted to show the natural vegetation in its landscape context, and the relationship between agriculture and geography. In 1980, Georges Charlier rephotographed about sixty of Massart's landscape images for the National Botanic Garden of Belgium and the Belgian Nature and Bird Reserves association. For each photo, point of view and framing were identical to Massart's. Both series were published and shown in the travelling exhibition Landscapes in Flanders Then and Now. It had to illustrate the impoverishment of the natural environment. In 2003, Labo S, the Laboratory for Urbanism at Ghent University, and the Flanders Architecture Institute commissioned Jan Kempenaers to rephotograph the same landscapes. A fourth series of photos was made by photographer Michiel De Cleene, commissioned by the Province of West Flanders in 2014. Due to the restrictions of rephotography, Charlier, Kempenaers and De Cleene did have only little freedom to express a personal point of view. However, a different emphasis on documentarian, artistic and scientific aspects can be distinguished in their work. Besides their photographic qualities, the four series are in this book considered as part of a 'chronophotographic' collection showing in detail the transformation of landscapes. Since several years, the collection has served multidisciplinary research at Ghent University, in particular on urbanisation and landscape mutations in terms of agriculture, biodiversity, infrastructure, economical development and lifestyles. Photography and research are the two components of this book. Design: Roger Willems with Wout Neirynck. ISBN 9789492811172Order Here

Artist book with photographic work by Katinka Bock dating from 2007 till 2017. It marks the occasion of three interrelated exhibitions by Bock in the space of one year in Kunst Museum Winterthur (Sonar/Tomorrow's Sculpture), Mudam Luxembourg (Smog/Tomorrow's Sculpture), and IAC Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (Radio/Tomorrow's Sculpture). With a text contribution by Louis Lüthi. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811134Order Here

Alex is the 10th publication in the Companion series, and was produced during Alex a light programme by Elena Narbutaite in Kunstverein München's Foyer, which began on New Year's Eve 2016 in Vilnius, and ended on New Year's Eve 2017 in Vilnius. Alex was edited by Elena Narbutaite and Julie Peeters, and features an extended correspondence between Elena Narbutaite and Candice Lin, as well as dialogue excerpted from the 1994 Atom Egoyan film Exotica, a WeTransfer.com caption by Chris Fitzpatrick, an unbound 'filmstrip', a textual intervention by Goda Budvytyte & Bernardo José de Souza, various visual contributions by An Breugelmans, Gintaras Didziapetris, Alix Eynaudi, Ieva Kabasinskaite, Elena Narbutaite, Onute Narbutaite, Julie Peeters, Viktorija Rybakova, Cécile Tonizzo, and a reproduction of a painting by August Kopisch. Design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789492811110Order Here

This publication compiles material of performances and installations produced during a five year period, featuring scripts, and documentation of the works Ending with Glass, Learning to Imitate in Absentia, Obliterating an Image, The Distance between V and W, Objects in Diaspora, and A Reading That Loves - a Physical Act, of which the last two were shown at documenta 14. Yael Davids positions the reception of her performances and installations as a constitute force in her practice. Each performance repeats what has preceded, yet also expands, modifies, and nuances the previous version. Through this practice of perpetually attuning the central components of the work - voice, body and object - a series of augmented repetitions turns into a single composition, a single artwork. Design: Mevis & Van Deursen. ISBN 9789492811097Order Here

New series of photographs by Geert Goiris, addressing the topic of our contemporary oil culture. Commissioned by Rubis Mécénat cultural fund, Goiris was given permission to the Rubis Terminal sites in Rouen and other sites in Europe. He tackles the subject from the outside, limiting himself to that particular moment when oil is seemingly without drama. This is not about the technical feat of extracting the oil from the earth, nor about the economic, social and/or geopolitical effects generated by its existence. Rather it is about the in-between stations, the moments when oil is only potentially active. With a text by Steven Humblet. Limited edition of 600 copies with print. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811103Order Here

Lous Martens about the book: "Seventeen years ago our grandson Jaap was born. That was the start of an animal book for Jaap. I used a dummy for the OASE journal of architecture and loosely pasted in pictures of animals that I had clipped from newspapers and magazines about art, literature and science. Plus stamps and photos from advertising brochures. Then Zeno was born and the same thing happened: an animal book for Zeno. Now I was working on two books at once. Then came Anna. Julian. Luca. At this point, there were five books-in-the-making on the table. And none of those five are finished yet. The children, as well as myself, enjoy seeing the small, ever-evolving changes. The additions. These books were never intended for the outside world where I had found all the pictures. Never intended to be published. Now they lie here, grouped into one big book, because others have convinced me it's what they deserve." Design: Martens Family. ISBN 9789492811073Order Here

Catalogue documenting Funnelflux, a solo exhibition by Navid Nuur in Be-Part, Waregem, combining a cross section of earlier works with new pieces and site specific installations. Placed in the heart of a photographic tour through the entire installation, there is an insightful text by the artist about his process of creating an exhibition like this, from the moment of being invited by an institution. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811066Order Here

This catalogue accompanies a major group show at the CCA Wattis in San Francisco, and Secession in Vienna, curated by Anthony Huberman. It reflects on ways the "machine" determines how we live and what we believe in. A machine is also a mechanism, not just a physical object but also an abstract ideology. The artworks point to the forms and instruments that make up our technological infrastructure, as well as to the values they are designed to enforce. Contesting a world that rewards efficiency, speed, and productivity, the participating artists test existing systems with inefficient machines, impossible tools, wasted time, and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs and inputs. With contributions by Zarouhie Abdalian, Terry Atkinson, Lutz Bacher, Eva Barto, Neil Beloufa, Patricia L. Boyd, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Richard Hamilton, Aaron Flint Jamison, Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Louise Lawler, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulène, Pope.L, Charlotte Posenenske, Cameron Rowland, and Danh Vo. Design: Julie Peeters and Scott Ponik. ISBN 9789492811042
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Ari Marcopoulos shot this series during one February afternoon in Exarcheia, a neighbourhood in central Athens which is known as home to Greek anarchists. Through 352 colourful pictures of graffiti and crumbling concrete walls, an urban portrait comes to light, as if Marcopoulos was scanning the area through his camera lens. The entire series remains unedited in the layout of the book. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811035Order Here

The Serving Library Annual comprises a number of individual "Bulletins" organized around a theme for an international audience of designers, artists, writers, and researchers. Newly published by ROMA Publications in a yearly format, this inaugural issue is realised in collaboration with Public Fiction, a journal and exhibition-maker based in Los Angeles. It deals with acts of civil disobedience and other forms of resistance, particularly in view of the relationship between entertainment and power. Contributors include Hilton Als, Tauba Auerbach, Anne Carson, Mark Leckey, Adrian Piper, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.
Public Fiction's next project, which runs broadly concurrent to this new Annual's lifespan, is named The Conscientious Objector-a multifaceted endeavour commissioned by West Hollywood City Council that unfurls in parts from September 2017 to April 2018. Curated by Public Fiction founder Lauren Mackler and Serving Library editor Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, The Conscientious Objector comprises a series of "commercials" produced by artists for public access TV, an exhibition of artworks and performances at the MAK Center for Art and Architectures Schindler House in West Hollywood, and the present publication. Design: Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey. ISBN 9789492811011Order Here

This sketchbook was begun in Munich in 1999, when I was 29 years old. Like most sketchbooks it served as a portal between the real world and the realm of her imagination. Although it was never intended to be shared, nevertheless quite a bit of "work" came out of this particular book, including the installation 'Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)', which is in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum. That, however, is an exception to the rule. For the most part the pages in this sketchbook reflect uneasy, unrefined, unfinished thoughts and anxieties, written and drawn with no objectives, no ulterior motives, and no filters. Kara Walker, July 2017. Scans: Ari Marcopoulos. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811004Order Here

The photographs in this book, taken by Aglaia Konrad between 2010 and 2017 in museums throughout Europe, share an interest in 'sculptural architecture'. Her focus on the spatial display of sculpture allowed for an unrestricted subjective choice. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811004Order Here

Publication about a newly placed sculptural fountain that Mark Manders designed for the city of Amsterdam. Besides an impression of the final result, photographed by Jan Kempenaers, the book includes texts and images covering the history of the fountain's central location in the city, the entire process of its creation, and an essay by Maria Barnas about movement in the work of Manders. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789492811004 / English editionOrder Here

The ninth in the Companion series, this 224-page publication contains the theoretical grounding for A rock that keeps tigers away - a group exhibition at Kunstverein München, with work by Beth Collar, Tania Pérez Córdova, Jason Dodge, Laura Kaminskait, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Francesco Pedraglio, Adrien Tirtiaux, Freek Wambacq, and Herwig Weiser. The publication contains texts (in either German or English) by Claudia Blum, Heinz von Foerster, Sigfried Großmann, Katrine Dybbroe Møller, Timothy Morton, Francesco Pedraglio, Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Shaviro, Julian Sigmund, and Doug Zongker, which wrap an extensive interview with the exhibition's main curator Post Brothers, conducted by the Kunstverein's director Chris Fitzpatrick, and with contributions from the publication's co-editor Hasan Veseli (in English and German). A collection of quotes from comedians, writers, and philosophers, transcriptions from episodes of the television programs, Sesame Street, The Simpsons, and The West Wing, a charting of the development of the 'Chicken or the Egg' debate in popular media, and artistic interventions by Beth Collar, Laura Kaminskait, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Gianni Motti, Julie Peeters, Tyler Vigen, and Freek Wambacq are also contained in the publication. Co-edited by Post Brothers and Hasan Veseli, with Chris Fitzpatrick and Julie Peeters. Designed by Julie Peeters.
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Over a period of one year, Jan Kempenaers photographed the woods in the Hobokense Polder, itself the result of a botched urban development project and a former dumping ground for excess soil and toxic waste. Located in a suburb of Antwerp, the area was transformed into a nature reserve two decades ago. It is a new, modern landscape, the result of human intervention left to its own natural growth. The book is composed in sections (archive, selection, details), repeating image sequences that progress in a tendency towards abstraction. With an essay on landscape photography by Steven Humblet. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843976Order Here

This exhibition publication is produced on the occasion of the group show Copy Construct held at the Cultural Centre Mechelen in the first half of 2017. Copy Construct departs from different artistic practices and specific works by artists that are based on 'reproduction' or 'copy'. Side by side, the exhibited works were shown in relation to printed matter and artists books. Initially produced as an exhibition guide, this revised version brings together some 25 autonomous contributions from the exhibited artists, a thematic introduction, an interview with the book collector Gregorio Magnani, as well as some images of the exhibition installation. The publication's bibliography offers a selected overview of exhibited books as seen per artist in recent decades. Curated and compiled by Kasper Andreasen. Design: Joris Dockx. ISBN 9789491843945Order Here

Published on the occasion of Claudio Moser's exhibition at the 237 meter high dam of Mauvoisin, and Musée de Bagnes in Le Châble (June 17 - September 3, 2017). With an interview by the exhibition's curator Jean-Paul Felly. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843938Order Here

This book, the 8th volume in Kopelman's series Notes on Representation, focuses on glaciers, alpine forests, and avalanche-sculpted mountainscapes, especially their texture, morphology, and readability. It brings together drawings and field notes made during multiple stays in the Swiss Alps, notably Davos, as well as paintings produced later in a studio setting. It also contains contributions by scientists with whom Kopelman worked. Their research offers relevant perspectives into glaciology, ecology, dendrochronology, and art history. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843921Order Here

Updated reprint in black featuring a collection of Na Kim's work from 2006 to 2016. For this book, fragments of her works are set in more or less personal categories, taking on a form reminiscent of a sample book. In contrast with other catalogues that are linked to an exhibition, published before the show's opening, this book sketched the pre-exhibition content and establishes the guidelines for the imaginary stage set in the exhibition space. Keeping the same structure, the second edition added extra installation images of transformed works through the guidelines in this book. Also added is a new text by Jae Seok Kim. Design: Joris Kritis. ISBN 9789491843914Order Here

The Bathers (Inverted) extends from Megan Francis Sullivans 2016 exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern titled The Unanswered Question. Its format refers to a publication of Ian Wilson from 1984, also for Kunsthalle Bern. A showcase of her recent series of 'inverted' Cezanne paintings, this poetic object likewise tilts a hat to the institutional framework of Conceptual Art, braiding specific references to suggest history as futurely negotiable. With a text excerpt by Anne Rorimer. Design: HIT and Megan Francis Sullivan. ISBN 9789491843907
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Special edition of 16 prints by Kees Goudzwaard, printed in 5 layers of Riso at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, in an edition of 100. By systhematically combining 5 compositions in different colours, Goudzwaard created a large variety of colorful prints, inititially produced as fragments for a large mural called Walled Garden, which has been installed in 2016 at the MMCA, Seoul, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp.
The 16 different prints in this edition can be viewed as a sequence of individual parts, but together they can form an endless amount of unique compositions, eventually to be mounted as a small-sized wall paper measuring 120 x 120 cm. With a text by Lex ter Braak. Design: Roger Willems.Order Here

The eighth in Kunstverein München's Companion series, this 'Verkaufskatalog' contains images, prices, material descriptions, and gallery designations for each of the works included in the exhibition 30 Jahre Kunst by artists Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys. Over 192 black and white pages, the diverse spectrum of the artists' collaborative practice is represented - drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, kinetic objects, videos. Additionally, a number of lost, destroyed, and forgotten works have also been included, as well as new works commissioned on occasion of the exhibition. Design: Julie Peeters and Harald Thys. ISBN 9789491843891
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Edited by Yvonne Rainer, this selection of texts and images by Rainer and various authors, offers a retrospective portrait of her work, focusing on some of her most notable performances and projects from both the late 1960s ('Trio A', 'The Mind Is a Muscle') and since her return to dance with the White Oak Dance Project in 2000. Rainer is known for her challengingly experimental and sometimes minimalist work as a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, which spearheaded the rise of postmodern dance. An essay by Rainer frames things from the perspective of an ageing dancer who is aware of her physical limitations. With a conversation between Rainer and dancer Trisha Brown. Design: Louis Lüthi. ISBN 9789491843884Order Here

Report of a year long chalk drawing project by Bart Lodewijks on the road between Menen and Ieper in Belgium, on the occasion of the public art project Menin Road-Ypernstrasse, organized in commemoration of the First World War. This 20 kilometer long road is historically known for the devastating battle during the First World War. Design: Roger Willems. Distributed for free.

This publication is part of Motion, a major exhibition by Dutch artist, graphic designer, and educator Karel Martens at Kunstverein München, and is the seventh issue in the Companion series produced by the Kunstverein and Roma Publications. Co-edited by Martens and Julie Peeters, the bulk of the content for this book comes from the video Not for Resale - a sequence of photographs from Martens' studio wall in Hoog Keppel in 2000. The videos Lost & Found (2004), and Tol (2008) are also included in the book, as well as a transcription of a conversation between Martens and Kunstverein director Chris Fitzpatrick, followed by an afterword (both in English and German). Concept and design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789491843853
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Small-sized catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Concrete Islands, curated by Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath at Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery in Los Angeles, from November 2016 till January 2017. The selection of works offers a poetic investigation into the intersection of words and objects. Inspired by Marcel Broodthaers 1964 sculpture Pense-Bête in which the artist took the unsold copies of one of his books of poetry and encased them in plaster creating an object that literally solidified poetry into a concrete form, Concrete Islands posits the question: where does language end and the world begin? With works by Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Beuys, Henri Chopin, Irma Blank, Alighiero Boetti, Mark Leckey, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Michael Dean, Michael E. Smith, Jimmie Durham, Bas Jan Ader, Mark Manders, Robert Filliou, Martin Boyce, and Dom Sylvester Houédard. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843846Order Here

This catalogue, published on the occasion of a group exhibition of nine artists taken place in the autumn and winter of 2016/17 at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, reflects upon contemporary figurative painting. Each painter has developed an idiosyncratic vision of how to represent people, and this books bold juxtaposition of their widely varied styles offers an intriguing cross-section of the genre and its possible futures. Works by the contributing artists Nicole Eisenman, Victor Man, Alice Neel, Paulina Oowska, Henry Taylor, Nicolas Party, Elizabeth Peyton, Avery Singer, and Katharina Wulff are accompanied by texts from several authors. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843822Order Here

What do people do when they are out in the street? Reading? Waiting? Can we recognize the inhabitant, the stranger, the traveller by his actions and deeds in an urban setting? This is the premise of Johannes Schwartz's exploration, which was set in Athens in the fall of 2015. The result are photos of streets, public squares, museums, ruins and shops, places of culture and consumption. Devided in 17 chapters, everything passes by in a set of chance driven encounters. Design: Experimental Jetset. ISBN 9789491843792Order Here

Photographs taken by Ari Marcopoulos in Rome (February - March 2016), and Malibu (August 2016). With a text contribution by Kara Walker. Rome. (...) Here, no image or structure is complete without symbolic framing devices, which also require framing devices, and so on. Ad infinitum. Malibu. Rockstars and fallen rocks and the edge, here is where the European conquest of the New World meets its fountain of youth endgame. We have reached the end, and it is vast. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843785Order Here

Batia Suter's work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first Parallel Encyclopedia, published in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter's practice are the "iconification" and "immunogenicity" of old images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values. "In my work, I collect groups of images based on various themes and characteristics, and I investigate how they can manipulate each other, depending on where and how they are placed. In the process of making this book, narrative lines unfolded before my eyes as I shifted images around." Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843761Order Here

This book was published after Shannon Ebner's exhibition A Public Character, held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Ebner's work is an extended mediation of language that often takes the form of photography. Certain aspects, especially seen in the ongoing series 'Black Box Collision A', represent her efforts to reflect upon our experience of language at the intersection of landscape and architecture, looking to the
social world as a realistic, concrete location of poetics found and made; observed and constructed. Also included are the works A Hudson Yard, A Self, and A Singular, as well as the title work A Public Character. Essays by Alex Gartenfeld, Bruce Hainley, Laura Hoptman, Eileen Myles and Ellen Salpeter. Design: Julia Born. ISBN 9789491843747Order Here

This fiction, a collaboration between Kasper Andreasen and Louis Lüthi, takes as its starting point the painter Alexander Cozens s publication A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape (1785). Set one morning in an empty gallery and told from the point of view of a young man who installs exhibitions for a living, The Preparator combines text and image in a series of compact, associative tableaus, each revolving around a landscape or rather, the memory of a landscape: a title page, an eighteenth-century ink drawing, the network of cracks in a ceiling, a walk along the Rhine, a satellite photograph, Thomas Bernhard holding forth in a private garden, and others. Design: Louis Lüthi. ISBN 9789491843754Order Here

This artist publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Karel Martens between 2014 and 2016, reproduced at actual size (except for two larger prints). It is available in two different cover versions which is the result of a printing experiment by printing all the content of the book in 3 layers on one print sheet, which was cut and folded into two different covers. ISBN 9789491843778Order Here

Photographer Mohamed Bourouissa (1978, Blida, Algeria) is interested in systems, in how society and particularly subcultures are structured. For his project Horseday (2013), he worked with a local black horse riding community in Philadelphia. This artist book unfolds as a story with photos, sculptures and stills from Horseday. But Bouroussia also opens up his sketchbook, giving us a glimpse of his thinking process. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843730Order Here

The work of Misha de Ridder in 'Falaise', which consists of abstractions of the chalky cliff face in Normandy, France, harnesses the revelatory power of photography to capture the continuous metamorphosis of the cliffs. Once a celebrated holiday destination, where Monet is believed to have developed Impressionism, the area has become forgotten as it is encroached upon by the sea, which is gradually swallowing its surroundings. Design: Mevis & Van Deursen. ISBN 9789491843723Order Here

Jan Kempenaers has been photographing urban and natural landscapes for over two decades. For this series of images, he applies the formal language of the documentary style, with its detached viewpoint emphasising the isolation and desolation of the strange structures in the frame. This causes a heightened sense of inaccessibility in the viewer, a sense of alienation exacerbated by the alien nature of the structures themselves. What are these objects, who built them, and why? Interspersed are composite photographs Kempenaers has made by cutting details from the images and overlapping them, thereby creating darkly idiosyncratic renderings of the same subjects. Design: Roger Willems.
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunstverein München, this volume begins by recounting the prospectus written by American publishing magnate Henry Luce, outlining what would become Life magazine. Today, to see, and to be shown is an almost universal obsession for all. Founded in 2001 by David and Ray Potes, Hamburger Eyes has grown into a magazine, publisher, and distributor of zines by an international photographers network. This particular publication complies facsimiles of spreads from back issues, plus images by such names as Ricky Adam, Stevie Dacanay, Ryan Florig, Troy Holden, Lele Saveri, Jai Tanju, David Uzzardi, a.o. Design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789491843716Order Here

The House of Beauty and Culture (HOBAC) was an avant-garde boutique, design studio and crafts collective in the late 1980s and the first destination to put Dalston on the fashion map. Alongside Judy Blame key members of the group included shoe designer John Moore, fashion designers Christopher Nemeth and Richard Torry, photographers Mark Lebon and Cindy Palmano, furniture duo Fric and Frack, and artist Dave Baby.
HOBAC developed deconstruction, both as a design technique and a grunge aesthetic, and were among the first to upcycle found materials and champion androgynous urban style. Their key influences were the provocative iconography and DIY spirit of Punk plus outsider idols such as David Bowie and William Burroughs. HOBAC worked and played at the heart of London's creative gay club scene, then in Soho, collaborating with the era's most progressive culture-makers including Derek Jarman, Susanne Bartsch and Leigh Bowery.
HOBAC's lasting legacy was acknowledged by Kim Jones in his AW15 menswear collection for Louis Vuitton, a tribute to this radical collective that sprung from what may now be considered to have been the first guerrilla store. Design: Roger Willems, Sam de Groot. ISBN 9789491843686Order Here

Une après-midi japonaise (A Japanese afternoon) is published on the occasion of the exhibition by Alain Bublex at the Mauvoisin dam and Musée de Bagnes in Le Châble (June 18 - September 18, 2016). The photographs are taken during the winter of 2015/2016 in val de Bagnes (Canton of Valais) in Switzerland and in the region of Hida (Gifu prefecture) in Japan. In this photographs, Bublex added drawn elements which are not always noticeable at first glance. ISBN 9789491843679Order Here

Book pages selected by Philip Metten, photographed by Johannes Schwartz. This is the first issue in a publication series documenting the Middelheimmuseum Library in Antwerp. For every issue another artsist is invited to make a selection acoording to his/her specific interest. Editing and design: by Julie Peeters.
Available for free at the Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp; Extra City, Antwerp; Kask School of Arts, Ghent; Section 7 Books, Paris; San Serriffe, Amsterdam; and at the New York Art Book Fair 2016. ISBN 9789491843655 (Not for sale)

Manuela Ammer writes in her essay in this book that the drawing practice of Michaela Frühwirth "responds to sites where the balance of matter and energy is negotiated, where physical force has acted on or is acting on its surroundings." It can be thought of as a negotiation of matter and energy, through works in which tons of rock detritus is transformed into a delicate web of abstract lines, or where the structure of a hydroelectric dam is detailed in countless graphite strokes. Five of Frühwirth s seemingly monolithic large-scaled drawings are reproduced in this artists' book on fold-out pages and through installation views. With additional texts by Raviv Ganchrow and Maaike Lauwaert. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843648Order Here

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Artists' Documents: Art, Typography and Collaboration at MMCA in Seoul (May 26 - August 31, 2016), organized by Roma Publications and mediabus. Besides exhibition views this book contains a complete and richly illustrated Roma Publications backlist from number 1, published in 1998, until this book (Roma 272, published in September 2016). Text in English and Korean, with contributions by Min Choi and LIM Kyung yong. Design: Na Kim and Roger Willems with a cover illustration by Karel Martens. ISBN 9789491843693Order Here

Bart Lodewijks: I spent two winters and one summer in Rio de Janeiro in search of suitable places for my chalk drawings. I entrusted myself to local residents who led me to places which were scenes of everyday life. Places that don t really catch the eye and which only disclose their special character to those who return regularly. I made my drawings on the streets, in a bar, in a church square and in a villa, but most of the time I frequented a small favela bordering on the end of the no-through Rua Benjamin Constant, the street I was staying in. I have written a story about life in this neighbourhood and the drawings I made there. Text in English and Portuguese. Made possible with the support of: Capacete, Rio de Janeiro; Mondriaan Fund; Central de Cultura Brasil & Holanda; Projeto Legal, Rio de Janeiro.
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In words and images, Lodewijks documented a long term project in two neighbourhoods of Genk, Belgium, during the spring and summer of 2014. He describes the process of making chalk drawings in the public space and the encounters with the inhabitants of the neigbourhoods and the housing company that owns the housing projects. Text in Dutch and English. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843617Order Here

Artist book released in conjunction with the exhibition Warum ich mich in eine Nachtigall verwandelt habe at Kunstmuseum Luzern (CH). With a text in German and English by Thomas Boutoux.
Design: Louis Lüthi. ISBN 9789491843624Order Here

This fifth in Kunstverein München's 'Companion' series was compiled as an extension of the 3 'film dinners' Otarkino presented in the Kunstverein in May 2016. Otarkino was founded in 2012, when film curator Vincent Stroep joined food collective Otark Productions (Hadas Cna'ani and Charlotte Koopman), and paired food and film in immersive events that are as auditory, gustatory, olfactory, and tactile as they are visual. The 21 menus and 32 corresponding films Otarkino has presented have been chronologically indexed through 64 full-color pages of receipts, notes, grocery lists, diagrams, serving timelines, and photographic documentation. Design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789491843631Order Here

This book reproduces Gertrude Steins 'Objects Lie On A Table (1922), a modernist play told through still life. Objects appear on the eponymous table and are transformed, from their humble selves into symbolic representations or characters in a series of cryptic narratives. Surpassing the representational aspects of language, the text is structurally illegible. James Langdon's typography supports the melodiousness of the text and breaks it open into smaller units. Visually, the book departs from Stein's text in an entirely graphic direction, constructing narrative from a set of simple geometric shapes. These forms ask the reader, for example: 'Am I a saucer, or a moon, or just a circle of printed ink? Published in accompaniment to Things On A Table, a performance by Uta Eisenreich and Eva Meyer-Keller with Katrin Hahner. Design: James Langdon. ISBN 9789491843600Order Here

Brittle Land encompasses black and white sequences of stills from Navratil's works Resurrections (2014) and Silbersee (2015), enriched with essays by Paul Feigelfeld and Keston Sutherland, and a poem by Rachel O'Reilly. Taking the former Agfa-Orwo filmfactory in Wolfen-Bitterfeld as a point of departure, the book divulges the interdependent histories of photographic emulsion, gelatin, labour, explotation, exhaustion, chemical contamination, fragility and slow violence. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843594Order Here

You've got beautiful stairs, you know is the fourth installment in Kunstverein München's 'Companion' series, and was released in parallel to Ola Vasiljeva's eponymous exhibition. The publication's 100 full-color and black-and-white pages combine facsimiles of zines, records, and posters Vasiljeva produced collaboratively as OAOA, intercut and overlaid with 35mm slides, drawings, and photographs taken by the artist during the production of previous exhibitions, as well as a manic letter to the artist by Chris Fitzpatrick. Design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789491843587Order Here

Together with drawings and scalemodels, The Be-Part Exercises can be seen as documents of the act of drawing in the midst of becoming. Zoete translated his drawings into theatrical sculptures embodied by actors which he photographed in filmic series which he digitally edited and drawn upon. The characters seem to be frozen in a re-enactment of the drawings they were based upon. Through repetition and difference, they show a rhythm of geometrical patterns in different constellations. Design: Roger Willems with Sam de Groot. ISBN 9789491843570Order Here

Fragment from the conversation between Leykauf and Caroline Soyez Petithomme in this book:
CSP: The reproduction of your own work is always at stake, and even more so here in the context of the current book: an artist's book and an autonomous work playing with the publication format as opposed to a conventional exhibition catalogue or a classical artist's monograph. Was this a way for you to get around the reproduction of your works?
AL: I consider installation views not only as documents of a past situation, but as something like shards, pieces of a whole - to stay with the metaphor of the kaleidoscope you introduced. You've suggested earlier that there is an elsewhere that arises within the various layers of reproduction in my work; maybe here that's located between the pages of this book.
CSP: And is it also a way to mirror your own process of creation - where the book remains the initial vehicle and source of your work, here to return again as a form, as in the current book?
AL: Yes, at the end of our conversation we return to the book, but also to the beginning: an observation of the act of looking and of our own position towards that at which we look.

Between 2012 and 2015 Bart Lodewijks produced chalk drawings on public walls and various other surfaces in the neighbourhood of Doorly Park, Riverside and Garavogue Villas in Sligo (Ireland). This book brings together images and text about the working process and Lodewijks' encounters with the local community.
Published on the occasion the solo exhibition Bart Lodewijks. The Model Drawing / Unforgettable neighbourhoods, at The Model, Sligo, Ireland.
The book exists with 4 differently colored covers, which are distributed randomly. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843549Order Here

This volumnious book in a clinical (and washable) white vinyl sleeve suggests high tech content, as if it belongs to a laboratory. Within a wide space of white and light gray pages - which could represent painted walls of a white cube - 39 works by conceptual Belgium artist Steve Van den Bosch are exposed. The photographs are taken by a forensic photographer and the text, entitled 'Event reconstruction from trace images: an original methodology', comes from the Swiss Institute for Police Science. The book itself is # 40 in the list of works and printed in a limited edition of 300 copies. Design: Steve Van den Bosch, David van Mieghem. ISBN 9789491843532Order Here

Originally published by Siegelaub/Wendler in 1968. Republished in December 2015 on the occasion of the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. ISBN 9789491843525Order Here

This book is the result of the work Irene Kopelman produced during visits to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama between 2012 and 2015. Without formal scientific training, Kopelman aimed to achieve an understanding of methods in field biology, and contacted three researchers to assist as interlocutors: Stuart J. Davies (forest ecology), Owen McMillan (adaptive variation), and Bill Wcislo (animal behaviour). Her drawings include the forms of woody vines, mangrove roots, and randomly scattered crab pellets in the sand. Texts by Stefan A. Schnitzer, John H. Christy, Mark Torchin, Andrew H. Altieri, William Wcislo and Irene Kopelman. Design: Roger Willems, Ayumi Higuchi. ISBN 9789491843501Order Here

Jennifer Tee, winner of the 6th Cobra Art Prize (2015), investigates the mutability and complexity of constantly overlapping cultures and identities through works that blur the line between static physical forms and potential carriers of anticipated action, ritual, and animation. This publication richly illustrates through installation and performance photographs her expression of the dialogue between material experimentation and philosophical contemplation, which mingles art history, Western culture, and Eastern philosophy.
With texts by Zöe Gray, Maxine Kopsa, and Monika Szewczyk. Design: Richard Niessen (Niessen & de Vries). ISBN 9789491843518Order Here

In three recent video installations - and in the three chapters of this book -, Zachary Formwalt focuses on the architecture of OMA's new Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Amsterdam stock and commodities exchange by H.P. Berlage. Although our economy is dictated by financial transactions, the activity of trading itself has become increasingly remote, without actual human encounter. The architecture of the two buildings serves as a starting point for a investigation into the limitations of photography to represent global capital and into the interrelationships between financial capitalism and image-making. With texts by Eric de Bruyn, Joshua Simon and Zachary Formwalt. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843433Order Here

Let s provide an example. A mother buys her child two T-shirts. The child puts on one of the shirts and steps forward smiling, whereupon the mother says: Don t you like the other one?
The child is taken aback.
A dilemma like this is called a Double Bind. And what a dilemma it is! Practically insoluble.
However, the child straightens itself out and puts on the other T-shirt as well, over the first one, but realises immediately the deadendedness of this solution because it also shows a preference. Not in the wearing admittedly, but still in the showing. Because which T-shirt goes on top?
Disillusioned the child shambles off, to return shortly with the second T-shirt pulled over the first, but inside out this time. Now the front sides of both shirts, that normally carry texts or images, face each other, invisible to us.
1. Did the child redeem itself?
2. Or is this a new piece by gerlach en koop?
3. If so, can it be fabricated?
4. If so, can it be shown?
Or is there no reason?

Choses tuées is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition held at de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam. With photographs by Kristien Daem and text contributions by Lorenzo Benedetti, Valentina Desideri, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Maxine Kopsa, Candice Lin, Raimundas Malasauaskas.
Texts in English and Dutch. Design: Louis Lüthi. ISBN 9789491843488Order Here

Over the course of a year, The Registry of Promise consisted of four interrelated exhibitions, which are represented as chapters in this book. In these chapters, Chris Sharp reflects on our increasingly fraught relationship with what the future may or may not hold, and the work engages with and plays upon the various readings and mutability of promise , along with the inevitability of what may come, whether positive or negative. Such polyvalence is particularly topical, as we have shifted from the anthropocentric promise of modernity to a negative faith in the post-human. Richly illustrated with works and installation views, and an archive of previously published articles by Chris Sharp.
With: Becky Beasley, Patrick Bernatchez, Juliette Blightman, Peter Buggenhout, Nina Canell, Michael Dean, Alexander Gutke, Jochen Lempert, Jean-Luc Moulène, Marlie Mul, Matt Mullican, Rosalind Nashashibi, Antoine Nessi, Jean-Marie Perdrix, Reto Pulfer, Mandla Reuter, Hans Schabus, Lucy Skaer, Michael E. Smith, Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli, Francisco Tropa, Andy Warhol and Anicka Yi. Texts in English and French. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843495Order Here

On a Universal Serial Bus.* is the third in the Kunstverein München s Companion series, released alongside Dexter Sinister's solo exhibition of the same name. The publication contains a collection of Dexter Sinister's writing around the four central projects on view: the script for Identity, a poem that initiated True Mirror, the complete incantation from The Last ShOt Clock, and the full-length essay version of Letter & Spirit. Design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789491843471
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Dexter Sinister is the compound name of artists Stuart Bailey (UK) and David Reinfurt (USA).
It was originally set up in 2006 to model a just-in-time economy of print production, counter to the contemporary assembly-line realities of large-scale publishing. Since then the name has variously referred to (1) a publishing imprint, (2) a workshop/bookstore on New York's Lower East Side, and (3) work produced for and often within art venues.

This book brings together two exhibitions, under the title Politics of Installation, by artists Hans Demeulenaere and Bas van den Hurk in spring and summer 2015. The title refers to a text by Boris Groys, in which he claims that installations made by artists reveal a sovereign world. Within these worlds there is not one dominant perspective, but rather an exchange of multiple perspectives. An important part of the project was to include art historical lines based on architectural elements. Demeulenaere refers to the work of architect Aldo van Eyck, and Van den Hurk to the architecture of Juliaan Lampens. Design: Marc Nagtzaam. ISBN 9789491843464Order Here

Whenever we set out to tackle an artist's oeuvre we generally try to trace the "decisive moments" - the turning points, the interruptions, the final work... There is one "key moment", however, that seems virtually to guarantee the ultimate understanding of the oeuvre - its beginning, its Opus 1. It is not without some justification that the inception of the oeuvre or artistic activity is surrounded by myth and mystification. As will appear time and time again in this book, the oeuvre and the Opus 1 are "constructions". Whatever one regards as the oeuvre and whichever Opus 1 is pointed out, those choices are always based on a predetermined and well-defined image of the artist s production. With contributions by: Koen Brams, Steven Jacobs, Matt Mullican, Christian Nagel, Herman Paul, Hermann Pitz, Dirk Pu ltau, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Ernst van Alphen, Antje von Graevenitz, Marc-Joachim Wasmer, Christoph Fink, Guido Goossens, Henri Jacobs, Suchan Kinoshita, Ulrike Lindmayr, Gert Verhoeven. Printed on newspaper stock, bound in hardcover. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843457Order Here

This book features a collection of Na Kim s work from 2006 to 2015, published on the occasion of her fourth solo exhibition, SET (named after this publication) at DOOSAN Gallery New York, from October 8 to November 5, 2015. For this book, fragments of her works are set in more or less personal categories, taking on a form reminiscent of a sample book. In contrast with other catalogues that are linked to an exhibition, published before the show s opening, this book sketches the pre-exhibition content and establishes the guidelines for the imaginary stage set in the exhibition space. With texts by Seewon Hyun and Wonhwa Yoon. Concept and design: Na Kim & Joris Kritis. ISBN 9789491843440Order Here

The first publication on the work of Experimental Jetset features almost two decades of graphic design praxis. Rather than a monolithic monograph, it is a very loose, personal archive, with essays by Linda van Deursen, Mark Owens, and Ian Svenonius, plus two photographic chapters with a selection of work by the studio, covering both printed matter and the documentation of site-specific pieces and installations. To conclude is a glossary-like anthology of texts (fragments of interviews, lectures, correspondence, etc.) previously written by Experimental Jetset, selected, edited, and structured by Jon Sueda. Design: Experimental Jetset. ISBN 9789491843402Order Here

A strong quality cotton tote bag designed by Experimental Jetset with the words 'Arts', 'Rats' and 'Star', especially produced for use during book fairs. Screen printed in a limited edition of 200 copies.Order Here

In 1993, Dana Lixenberg travelled to South Central Los Angeles for a magazine story on the riots that erupted following the verdict in the Rodney King trial. What she encountered there inspired her to revisit the area, and led her to the community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. Returning countless times over the following twenty-two years, Lixenberg gradually created a collaborative portrait of the changing face of this community with her 4x5 field camera. Over the years, some in the community were killed, while others disappeared or went to jail, and others, once children in early photographs, grew up and had children of their own. In this way, Imperial Courts constitutes a complex and evocative record of the passage of time in an underserved community. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843426Order Here

This book contains 806 numbered drawings by Ante Timmermans, dating from 2002 up till 2015. By showing all these drawings in chronological order, and not just a selection of them, one is able to read a flow of thoughts, and see the artist's themes, subjects, and sources come and go. Drawing is in the heart of Ante Timmermans' practice, often leading to works in other media, such as performances, paintings, sculptures, and installations. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843419Order Here

Sudoku is the second in the Kunstverein München s Companion series. The publication features demonstrative and representational imagery by the artists, which follows and deviates from a collated transcription of their conversations. The exhibition and publication are titled after the popular Japanese puzzle in which deductive logic is used to fill a concentric grid of squares with the numbers 1 through 9 in correct locations. The challenge lies in the puzzle s restrictive rules, but for the exhibiting artists, Sudoku offered a productive system with which to responsively create new interdisciplinary work, and to re-present existing work in new ways. Design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789491843389Order Here

Zeichnungen is an artist book with a compilation of drawings - or rather, 'sketches of drawings' by Nagtzaam. He combined his material by printing it in different layers on a Riso duplicator at the Charles Nypels Lab in Maastricht. The result is a careful composition of previously unpublished drawings that became a new work in itself. Printed in a limited edition of 200 copies, numbered and signed. ISBN 9789491843372Order Here

Published to coincide with exhibitions at the Mauvoisin Dam, the Museum of Bagnes in Le Châble, and Fotomuseum Winterthur. 'The Grand Tour is a travelogue through the world of maps' is Kasia Klimpel s description of her virtual travel images. Klimpel smuggles her own photographic yet fictional model landscapes which she produces through the traditional means of paper and light into the operating systems and web sharing sites of global search engines. In doing so, she plays with the unpredictability of algorithms. When and under what conditions are her staged images of horizons, mountain panoramas and sunsets inserted into these systems as geotags? Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843365Order Here

Collection of graphic and textual work by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, dating from the seventies up till 2015. Compiled and designed by Julie Peeters, enriched with translations of facsimile material and a large amount of personal comments from the artist on the selected work. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Serving Compressed Energy with Vacuum in Kunstverein München from 25 April - 14 June 2015. ISBN 9789491843334Order Here

Book with a sequence of 49 recent photographs by Geert Goiris, of which the larger part was taken in Norway and North America in 2014 and 2015. This series was compiled in analogy with a large slide projection integrated in the exhibition Geert Goiris - Flashbulb Memories, Ash Grey Prophesies at Foam, Amsterdam, from March 20 till May 24, 2015. The book comes with a signed and numbered Frontier print. Limited edition of 500 copies. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843327Order Here

This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition of work by Karel Martens at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Besides offering a closer look at his recent free work, it also covers his approach to the teaching of graphic design. Comprising a selection of both past work and more recent applied work, it also includes new essays by David Bennewith, who examines Martens' approach to teaching through its history and accounts from students, and Robin Kinross, who offers a meditation on Martens' mono-prints, which demonstrate a consistent line of inquiry through his 54 years in graphic design. Martens was the recipient of the Gerrit Noordzij Prize in 2012. Design: Karel Martens in collaboration with David Bennewith and the students of Type and Media, The Hague. ISBN 9789491843310Order Here

For her first solo exhibition in Belgium, acclaimed Italian artist Rossella Biscotti draws a trajectory across spaces that evoke important historical processes and links them to the sciences of the mind. This book, published in conjunction with the exhibition, follows this example by interweaving narratives in relation to the concrete and discrete architecture of memory, dreams, and ideas. While revisiting sites of punishment, the gathering of works embodies the ability of the human mind to resist oppression, tracing individual destinies or collective endeavours through a combination of materials, language, and scientific techniques. With a text by Adam Kleinman. Design: Louis Lüthi. ISBN 9789491843303
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Over the years Armin Linke is creating a vast archive of human activity. Commissioned to develop an artwork for the new Sciences Po Library in Paris, Linke took his chance to shoot a large series of photographs inside the library and inside a few leading economic and cultural institutions in Paris: C2RMF - Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France; BNP Paribas; Conseil d'Etat and Conseil Constitutionel; Ministère de l'Économie, de Finances et du Commerce extérieur; CGT Conféderation générale du travail; Musée du Louvre.
By photographing unnoticed parts of their interiors in a detailed and neutral way, Linke manages to reveal invisible activities of the institutions and at the same time restore beauty in these sites. After installing a permanent exhibition at the library, a brochure was produced to finish the project. We decided to offer this brochure together with 2 original prints. The book reflects on the entire project by giving insight in Linke's work and the genisis of the commission while the prints are open for interpretation, which is also the case for the visitors of the library. Texts in French and English by Bruno Latour, Eva Bellinghausen, Anastassia Makridou-Bretonneau, Valérie Pihet, Armin Linke, Sylvain Gouraud. Design: Laure Giletti (book), Roger Willems (sleeve). Edition: 400 copies, signed and numbered. ISBN 9789491843280Order Here

In this artist book Téllez gives answers to 64 questions on 'How Do You Play Chess?' by linking them to specific text fragments and images that explore psychiatric confinement, surveillance architecture, and the game of chess as strategically interrelated systems. Games Are Forbidden in the Labyrinth opens new spaces for play across formerly closed systems and inverts the power dynamics between surveillance tower and cell. This book is expanding on Téllez s exhibitions at San Francisco Art Institute and REDCAT, Los Angeles. With texts by Ruth Estévez, Dieter Roelstraete, and Hesse McGraw. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843297Order Here

Reproduction of the floor piece Le Tapis (fair use) by Pierre Leguillon, consisting of a collection of graphically striking record sleeves designed by artists, surrounded by postcards from a large variety of art institutions showing objects on a monochrome background. On the backside all sources and credits are collected as found on the originals. Printed and hand folded in an edition of 600 copies. Published on the occasion of Leguillon's solo exhibition The Museum of Mistakes: Contemporary Art and Class Struggle at Wiels, Brussels. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 978949184327 3
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In 2001 Petra Stavast moved into a house where she met a woman named Ramya. For a few years the camera became their means of communication which resulted in a series of quiet photographs of the house and its inhabitant. Following Ramya's death in 2012, the project gained a new dimension. Stavast discovered not only Ramya's private archive, but also photographs of Ramya taken by a neigbor. She traces events such as Ramya's membership of the Rajneeshpuram commune, established between 1981 and 1985 by followers of the Bhagwan (Osho) in the no-man's-land of Oregon, USA. Now, as Stavast's photographs reveal, the only on-site reminder of that period is a wide asphalted road. Video stills show Ramya, back in Amsterdam, at a workshop given by a new guru. Together, these documents constitute an unconventional biography that leaves the reader behind with mixed feelings. Design: Hans Gremmen. ISBN 9789490119270
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For the first time Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet presents a selection of drawings and sketches made as studies for his paintings. Besides numerous drawings, the book also offers a selection of paintings from recent decades, as well as a new series, 'Seven Stones'. The drawings and older works give a clear indication of the path Zandvliet has followed since the 1990s in his search for pure form and composition through an uncompromising approach to his work. With 'Seven Stones', Zandvliet ventures into new territory where not only does he attempt to produce good paintings, but he also tries to fathom why specific forms have such a great impact on him personally. With an introduction by Rudi Fuchs. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843244
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Artist book with photographs of mainly animal food in Moscow's city zoo, intuitively color printed in risograph by Johannes Schwartz. The book is produced in a limited edition of 250 copies, with many thanks to Jo Frenken at the Van Eyck in Maastricht and the volunteers who helped folding. Design: Experimental Jetset. ISBN 9789491843228Order Here

Small book with a detailed photographic tour through the exhibition Acolyte Frena by Mark Manders at De Vleeshal Middelburg, from 19.01 till 23.3.2014. Photographed and designed by Mark Manders and Roger Willems, printed in an edition of 800 copies. ISBN 9789491843266Order Here

In this book, recent work by Marc Nagtzaam is shown together with installation views and some of his older drawings. As a result, the previous works can be viewed from the perspective of the new, and vice versa. Nagtzaam sees exhibitions and books as single works. The same compositional approach used when making the drawings is also reflected in the structure of this book. In this manner, Nagtzaam reveals the link between the hard-edge abstraction of the drawings, which can be read as architectural plans, and his spatial installations in which they function as elements in a larger composition, suggestive of an obscure organising principle. Design: Marc Nagtzaam in collaboration with Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843235Order Here

Susanne Kriemann examines a radioactive rock discovered in the Barringer Hill Mine in Llano, Texas, in the late 1800s. We see a photograph of a large rock (a single chunk of gadolinite), and then another image of a wall of rocks, signalling the importance of the threshold to Kriemann's work. She focuses on the material and mystical limit of knowing and seeing on how a narrative loops through archaeological layers without ever finding its source. Presently, the mine lies beneath a lake; its mirrored surface resembles the photographic lens, but the eye, ours and the rock's, exists on both sides. Design: Radim Pesko. ISBN 9789491843198Order Here

Published to coincide with the exhibition of a series of photographs by Geert Goiris at the Mauvoisin Dam (Valais, Switzerland), this sublime series of 30 images suggests a timelessness and contained restlessness through its potential narratives of place and collective memory. Labyrinthine trees, strange rock formations, contemplative figures, man-made objects and wide mountain landscapes work together to instil a sense of serenity on the observer, yet one that evokes a certain tension, a primal longing generated by the environments Goiris portrays. Included is an insightful essay by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser. Design: Roger Willems. Comes with an original, signed Lambda print in a limited edition of 300 copies. ISBN 9789491843211Order Here

Artist's book by Koenraad Dedobbeleer, compiled as a catalogue of an imaginative exhibition. Its initial spark originated in the framework of an exhibition held at Cultuurcentrum Mechelen in 2013 (Up Close & Personal). The premises of the Cultuurcentrum's classical, museum styled exhibition halls, serve as a container for Dedobbeleer's envisioned exhibition.
Published in conjunction with the exhibitions The Desperate, Furiously Positive Striving of People Who Refuse to Be Dismissed at Extra City, Antwerp (5.04-25.05.2014) and A Quarrel in a Faraway Country Between People of Whom We Know Nothing at GAK, Bremen (01.11.2014-25.01.2015). ISBN 9789491843204Order Here

Coinciding with museum exhibitions by Thomas Ruff in Ghent and Düsseldorf, this book comprises five series of photos ranging from the start of Ruffs' artistic career in the late 1970s to recent work in 2014. This selection, being shown under the title Lichten, takes as its philosophical and scientific thread the spectrum between natural and virtual light - a fundamental shift that has taken place in the medium of photography over the last thirty years.

The selected series include Interiors (1979-1983), Stars (1989-1992) and Nights (1992-1996), as well as parts of Ruffs' most recent series called Negatives (2014-) and Photograms (2012-2014) - a digitally generated simulation of this historical genre. In each of the series, Ruff subjects the photographic medium to systematic analysis: social, political and aesthetic aspects of image production are laid bare, and thereby the history of Modernity as it was initiated by the emergence of photography in the 19th century. As a conceptual photographer, Ruff is not so much interested in photographing reality; he focuses more on portraying the realities of photography.

This book comprises a selection of paintings, drawings and poems by London-based poet and painter David Robilliard (1952-1988). Combining figurative elements with text taken from his poems, his paintings employ coded language, wry wit and a melancholic tinge to impart narratives of passing infatuations, sexual encounters and life s tragedy, as the spectre of HIV looms towards the end of his life. Besides reproductions of artworks, the book includes an exclusive audio CD of Robilliard reading his poems in 1987.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition David Robilliard: The Yes No Quality of Dreams at ICA London, 16 Apr 15 Jun 2014. With texts by Andrew Wilson and Gregor Muir. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843167Order Here

Richly illustrated book about the work of Paris based artist Katinka Bock. Bock focuses on sculpture as encounter and material transformation. In works that incisively investigate the sites of their production, she questions and highlights the materials that compose them, and meditates on the processes that shape them. For Bock, sculpture is the record and measure of place, space, time, and actions, in continuum.
This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition Katinka Bock: A and I at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (Feb - May 2014). With texts by Marie-Cécile Burnichon, Thomas Clerc, Luis Croquer and Sylvia Wolf. Design: Louis Lüthi.ISBN 9789491843150Order Here

Using photography, video, installation, and texts, Annie Ratti questions and rethinks contemporary human conflicts, uncertainties and social complexities, often transforming her private experience into a public or participatory event. Such is the case with her research into the science, cultivation, and cultural and ethnographical significance of psilocybin mushrooms, the results of which appeared as an exhibition at De Vleeshal, Middelburg, in 2013. With source documents, photographs and installation views and step-by-step instructions on how to grow psychedelic fungi, Ratti encapsulates the Western fascination with these rhizomatic organisms. Design: Louis Lüthi. ISBN 9789491843143Order Here

Published in conjunction with the presentation of Manders' installation piece Isolated Bathroom / Composition with Four Colors at Collezione Maramotti, this book comprises a lengthy series of black-and-white photographs of the artist s working environment where unfinished works show different stages of his creative process. In the insert, Manders explains his thoughts on Isolated Bathroom / Composition with Four Colors, which Mario Diacono then further analyses in detail. Desing: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843006Order Here

This 6th volume of Kopelman's publication series Notes on Representation reports a travel to the Andean highlands in Peru where she investigated the amorphous shapes of native potatoes. Her notes give account of indigenous agriculture and community efforts to preserve hundreds of potato varieties. From meeting a local potato king to witnessing first-hand the amazing variety of tuberous colours and shapes, Kopelman s experience and the resulting drawings are unique. Made possible with support of the Mondriaan Fund. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843112Order Here

This book is dedicated to the first two decades of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, presenting a thorough history of the organisation's roots in post-war Britain, its mission of providing a physical base for the avant-garde, and its laying the groundwork for a continuing contribution to the evolution of contemporary art. Anne Massey's account is comprehensive in its scope, emphasising the ICA's being openly fluid and responsive to fluctuations in artistic culture with groundbreaking exhibitions and very personal approach. Besides a foreword by executive director Gregor Muir, the book includes numerous archival images and a detailed chronology. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843136Order Here

In Two Minds documents Gwenneth Boelens' practice of the past ten years, comprising photography and sculpture, as well as performative and filmic works. An extensive chapter of notes, written by her partner and editor Nickel van Duijvenboden, illuminates Boelens' work and evolving attitudes from an intimate and studious perspective. Conversations and reflections are punctuated by a rich vein of illustrations and process images, as well as citations from twentieth-century literature and philosophy, such as by Bergson, Valéry, Merleau-Ponty and Woolf. A sense of searching pervades the publication, visually as well as intellectually, resulting in a meditation on experience, thought, memory and process. Made possible with support of the Mondriaan Fund. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843099Order Here

Modelling Standard is the first collaborative project of artists Jorge Satorre and Erick Beltrán with drawings by Jorge Aviña. As a point of departure they took the radical historiographic turn introduced by Carlo Ginzburg in the 1970s who focused on localised, popular and disregarded micro-histories rather than universal, over-arching versions. The title Modelling Standard references the scientific concept of the Standard Model used in physics to explain the almost invisible interactions occurring between subatomic particles. Erick Beltrán and Jorge Satorre use both micro-historical methods and the metaphor borrowed from physics to create connections between small, insignificant hints and traces. These are taken from their heterogeneous references to build seemingly unlikely connections between literary references, personal experiences, historical data, trivia and scientific facts through the construction of a diagram. The result is a series of caricatures and texts through which the artists will construct a detective plot where Sigmund Freud, Carlo Ginzburg, Giovanni Morelli, Aby Warburg, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joe Orton are the protagonists. Illustrations by Jorge Aviña. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843105Order Here

Wim Wauman, known for his still life photographs, invited fellow artists to contribute meaningful objects to his 'Paraphernalia' project, resulting in a collection of 171 objects with which he created and photographed 21 compositions in his studio. These still lifes resonate with historical visual traditions and alchemy, asking observers to make individual interpretations and connections. In this publication, each object is connected to its respective donor and therefore his or her artistic strategy. It includes commentary from the artists about their contributions, an essay by Stefaan Vervoort about the project, and a manifesto by Wauman. Typography: Marc Nagtzaam. ISBN 9789491843082Order Here

This publication brings together works made between 2010 and 2013 that share the same principle: a method of constructing images of time by layering multiple moments, creating hybrids between photography and other media, documenting something that is positioned beyond our human ability to see. Each series adds a different parameter to the principle, such as two- and three-dimensional space, scale, perspective, performance, installation and parallel events. The publication also features an alternative view on Mater s practice with a chapter of research and process material. With an essay by Maxine Kopsa. Design: Veronica Ditting. Edition: 1200. Made possible with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund. ISBN 9789491843075Order Here

Foldout book with photographs, including an original C-print, selected from a series taken by Jan Kempenaers during a road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2010. The images were shot with an advanced hand-held digital camera, which allowed him to work freely in a snapshot style whilst maintaining a very high quality. Within the context of Kempenaers body of work, this new series underlines his desire to shift further toward abstraction instead of documentary work. Design: Roger Willems. Edition: 500. ISBN 9789491843068Order Here

Artist's book by Paul Elliman. In a glossy volume approaching 600 pages, Elliman has collected images from a variety of sources - fashion magazines, glamour photography and pornography - cropping and arranging the clippings in a manner that especially emphasises the presence of hands, along with the many gestures of which they are capable. Also prevalent in the spectrum of clothed, semi-nude and nude human forms are limbs, feet, torsos and erogenous zones. Without any text or explanation, the series takes on a mesmerising aspect wherein the action of flipping through the pages becomes a kind of meditative contemplation of the fragmented human body. Design: Julie Peeters. ISBN 9789491843051Order Here

A few years ago, Queen Paola invited Michaël Borremans to the Royal Palace of Brussels and commissioned a unique body of work for the Royal Collection of Belgium. Since 2010 six paintings and one video work are permanently installed at the Royal Palace. This ensemble has been collected in this small scale book. With an introduction by Hans Rudolf Reust (Dutch, French, German, English). Design: Kim Beirnaert. ISBN 9789491843044
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French artist Cristof Yvoré is recognised for his blunt painting style and use of a distinct range of colour nuances, particularly forceful shades of brown and grey. Whether the corner of an empty room or a lonely vase with flowers set against a blank wall, Yvoré s heavy and bleak depictions offer contemplative windows towards personal memory, yet are released from the burden of narrative. The nuances of colour and nature of composition, plainly seen in this weighty volume s numerous reproductions, speak to the artist s body of work. Contributions by Alessandro Rabottini, Frédéric Valabrègue and Ilaria Bonacossa further explore the artist s dialogue with his painterly craft. Design: Kim Beirnaert. ISBN 9789491843020
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This Formless Thing alludes to materials and artificial substances from which images are made, like celluloid, photosensitive emulsion, and pigments. Around a series of five thematically complementing works by Navratil, seven text contributions where written by Jennifer Burris, Simona Ciuccio, Natasha Ginwala, Esther Leslie, Matthew Solomon, Jelena Rakin, and Mirjam Varadinis. Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition by Alexandra Navratil in Kunstmuseum Winterthur, travelling to SMBA, Amsterdam. Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843037Order Here

Reproductions of six wall drawings made by Nagtzaam at San Serriffe, Amsterdam, during the month of June, 2013. Laser print on paper, hand stapled in a numbered edition of 40 copies.
Price: Euro 12.- (exclusively for sale at San Serriffe)

A repository of nine years of drawing and collecting images. All Jacobs' journal drawings from 001 up to 666 are shown. For some of them, different stages of development are included. These stages reveal how a particular drawing evolved, and throughout the book, the evolution of Jacobs' drawing itself can be seen. A book with a huge number of images which, after painstaking labour, have received a place in which they can interact with each other through the eyes of the viewer. Design: Mevis & Van Deursen, Lu Liang. Made possible with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund and the Flemish authorities. ISBN 9789077459997Order Here

There is also a 32 x 24 cm print available in an edition of 50. Print with drawing on Dalbe 200 gr/m2.
Price: 250 Euro (or 300 Euro with a book). If you are interested please send us a mail.

Since 2011 Saskia Janssen has been attending weekly lessons in Buddhism at a small temple based in a cellar underneath a sunbed studio in Amsterdam-East. During these lessons, as well as at the monthly lectures and rituals overseen by visiting Lamas, she takes notes and makes sketches. Once she returns to her studio she transforms these into works: drawings, photos, sculpture and text. Alternatively Janssen revisits existing works, but from a new perspective. Design: Jaan Evart and Saskia Janssen. Edition: 750. ISBN 9789077459973
Made possible with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund.
Link: www.saskiajanssen.comOrder Here

1.000 questions for the year 2135. Written on the occasion of the closure ceremony of the Time Capsule at the Wilhelminakade in Rotterdam on May 30, 2013. In Dutch only. Design: Hans Gremmen. Editing: Mieke van der Linden and Mirjam Klootwijk.
Link: www.wilhelminasteen.nl

'Yonder' is a selection of works that document a seven year study of indoor elements that reflect Goossens' longing for freedom, independency and nature. This book was presented at Foam, Amsterdam on July 18th accompanied by a solo show with a selection of these works. With text by Maria Barnas. Design: Remco van Bladel. Made possible with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund. ISBN 9789491843013Order Here

Textless brochure with photographs of Manders' installation in the Dutch Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial. Edition: 30.000, free for visitors of the exhibition. Not for sale.
Link: www.venicebiennale.nl